Ray T

I know it "should" be in computing but I think it deserves a wider airing.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...y-weather.html

brendy76

iTrader: (6)

Oh dear.... that is all.

Ray T

ah sorry apprently a hoax, so one of my Irish collegues tells me.

http://thesciencebit.net/2011/11/25/...his-ignorance/

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Link no worky!

ChefDude

TheScienceBit.Net

"...So I set about writing an appropriate blog. I had even composed the opening sentence: “This is one of those ‘you’re-never-gonna-believe-it’ kind of stories.” And then, as I usually do, I went looking for the sources. Evidence, in other words.

Unfortunately, to my (kind-of) disappointment, I had difficulty finding the original article. The piece had appeared on a number of discussion boards (such as here, here, and here), but not in any actual news outlet, at least online. Fair enough, I thought, maybe the piece was published only in hard copy, although I did think it strange that no original source was identified on any of the posts. So then I went looking for details about the various councillors, including Martin Shiels, Sile Ni Baoill, and the now infamous Seamus Tiernan. And I discovered there were no councillors of those names serving in Galway, nor in any other council in Ireland.

In other words, the entire story was a hoax. Funny, yes, and maybe even thought-provoking. But a hoax nonetheless.

Which rather scuppered my plans to write about politicians’ lack of grasp on matters scientific and technological."

boxst

Oh that's a shame .... I thought that was very funny.

They just took the page down.

subaruturbo_18

The americans are better


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Jcr...layer_embedded